Investigation of magnetic field gradient waveforms in the presence of a metallic vessel in magnetic resonance imaging through simulation

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2920-2932

  Goora, Frederic ^a   Han, Hui ^a   Ouellette, Matthew ^a   Colpitts, Bruce G ^a   Balcom, Bruce J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eddy currents; electromagnetic transients; gradient coil; magnetic resonance imaging; simulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TRANSIENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; GRADIENT COIL; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENT; PLANAR GRADIENT COILS; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

EDDY CURRENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

METALS;

EID: 84878774766     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2234758     Document Type: Article

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